SANDY ISLAND NATURE PRESERVE Tours

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We offer the Sandy Island tour as a 4-Hour Tour or a 6-Hour Tour.  

Managed by The Nature Conservancy, Sandy Island is the largest undeveloped fresh water island on the East Coast. It's 9,000+ acres are home to a wide range of wildlife, including herons, egrets, swallow-tailed kites, otters, alligators, and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
On our 4-Hour tour we will either paddle our wide and stable recreational kayaks along several small creeks to a small dock on Sandy Island and go ashore for a short hike into the heart of Sandy Island, or we will paddle down White Creek, a beautiful creek that winds through Sandy Island.  Which tour we go on depends on the tides, but both trips let you experience the rare beauty of Sandy Island as few people get to see.

Our 6-Hour tour combines the two 4-Hour tour options into one longer tour, letting you experience the full range of what Sandy Island has to offer.  Paddle stable touring kayaks along 8 miles of pristine black water creeks and abandoned rice canals and take a short hike into the heart of Sandy Island to see the unique ecosystems hidden within.

This tour is a good opportunity to see young alligators. The adult alligators are very much afraid of humans, and are therefore much less likely to be seen. We DO NOT feed alligators on our tours. This keeps the alligators wild, and keeps them afraid of humans.

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This tour meets at Wacca Wache Landing, in Murrells Inlet.

Driving directions are as follows:

From the North:South on Hwy. 17 Bypass past Inlet Square Mall (Murrells Inlet) about 2 miles, at the 4th traffic light, turn right onto Wachesaw Rd. and follow it to the landing at the Waccamaw River. Park on the right.

Driving Time:Little River 1 ½ hrs, N. Myrtle Beach 1 hr, Myrtle Beach 30 min, Surfside 20 min, Garden City 15 min, Murrells Inlet 5 min

From the South:North on Hwy. 17 past Brookgreen Gardens and past Huntington Beach State Park about 2 ½ miles at the first traffic light, turn left onto Wachesaw Rd. and follow it to the landing at the Waccamaw River. Park on the right.

Driving Time:Litchfield 10 min, Litchfield Beach 15 min, Pawleys Mainland 20 min, Pawleys Island 30 min, Debordieu 25 min, Georgetown 35 min

For both North and South: Follow Wachesaw Rd. all the way to the landing at the Waccamaw River. Park on the right.

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